Rivers & Creeks

Anna K Young

Creeks. Kinship. Connections.

If we more thoroughly understood the kinship between everything around us, how would that change our relationships with the world? Is...

Linda Russo

The Plant Poems Project

Environmental Philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore poses the question, “What would you be willing to spend your whole life taking care of?” At...

Lindsey Shannon

Caught in the Spell of Biotic Community at Rose Creek Preserve

Mesmerized, I arrive at the Rose Creek Nature Preserve. It feels like I have travelled hours or days to get here and not the fifteen...

Rachel Clark

Seeing the Snake River Across Time: Dennis Dehart’s Wawawai Photographs

“The real gift of these photographs is the way they limn what’s possible by marking what’s past.”

Aidan Barger

Haibun Postcard: from Wawawai County Park, Whitman County

As I open the door of my car, the beetle rushes by. It hobbles over the pebbles baked into the asphalt, speeding over the yellow parking...

Lindsey Shannon

the busy, late-afternoon traffic humming down Grand could not drown out the sound of rushing water

by Lindsey Shannon In John Walton’s poem, “I stopped as if I knew anything,” he writes about Missouri Flat Creek and the awe he felt...

Linda Russo

The River People Are Talking

If being near a river overwhelms you with feelings of love, you intuitively grasp how we humans belong to rivers, and how rivers connect us.

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